Configuration of a modular plant
AssigneeABB Schweiz AG
InventorsMario Hoernicke, Ralf Jeske, Joerg Schubert
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Abstract
A method of providing a control software configuration for a module of a modular plant, the method including, in a module engineering phase: receiving a user definition for the module; and automatically generating the control software configuration for the module based on the user definition, the automatically generating including: specifying parameters for the module that are not specific to any target system; and providing the control software configuration as a controller-agnostic configuration file for subsequent binding of controller software instantiated according to the controller-agnostic configuration file to a hardware controller of the module when the module is integrated into a target system during a plant engineering phase.
Claims14
A method of providing a control software configuration for a module of a modular plant, the method comprising, in a module engineering phase:
- receiving a user definition for the module;
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- automatically generating the control software configuration for the module based on the user definition, the automatically generating comprising:
- specifying parameters for the module that are not specific to any target system;
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- providing the control software configuration as a controller-agnostic configuration file for subsequent binding of controller software instantiated according to the controller-agnostic configuration file to a hardware controller of the module when the module is integrated into a target system during a plant engineering phase.
A method of configuring a modular plant, the method comprising, in a plant engineering phase:
- receiving a user definition for the modular plant as a target system, the definition identifying modules to be integrated into the modular plant according to the user definition, at least one the module of the modules being associated with a controller-agnostic configuration file specifying parameters for the at least one module that are not specific to any target system;
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- automatically binding controller software instantiated according to the controller-agnostic configuration file to a hardware controller of the at least one module of the target system, the binding comprising automatically adapting the controller software to the target system according to the user definition.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.